politeness

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/13 Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> wrote:
>>> Hehe... I *LOVE* the webcams! Thanks!
>>
>> But wouldn't it fall down  to the centre of the earth?  Didn't anyone
>> read 'Earth' by David Brin?

{snipped discusion of the physics involved - Thanks Dotan}

Which is pretty much exactly the way David Brin explained it :-)
Except for time it took.  IIRC he had it was on the order of a decade
or so, not the time frame you postulated.  I don't know if that was a
liberty he took for the novel or not.  And the results of having it
orbiting around in the core of the earth....  which is a plot twist
I'm not revealing.

Brian